Funny Features

Funny Features is delivered by Glasgow Film Festival through the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, made possible with National Lottery Funding.

Glasgow Film Festival’s Funny Features is an innovative UK-wide talent lab for producers, writers and writer/directors developing their first or second feature.

Over six months, successful creative teams will gain access to one-to-one consultancy sessions, online workshops and mentoring. This will be a rare opportunity for comedy projects to be developed in a constructive and practical development environment where they will be able to participate in peer-to-peer and professional feedback. 

• Script consultancy and feedback
• Story workshop and consultancy
• Audience design consultancy
• Pitching workshop
• Finance and film packaging intensive workshops
• Mentorship
• Pitching sessions 

Teams will leave Funny Features with extensive knowledge of the film finance landscape, heightened confidence in navigating the marketplace, a clearer understanding of their audience and market placement, a widened network of decision-makers, a film finance 
package, a final draft of their script and a project ready to enter the international marketplace to being securing financing. 

Funny Features is the only UK talent development lab that provides talent with a rare opportunity to develop their comedy features to a point where they are ready to secure finance. This targeted development and training will increase the chances of independent 
UK comedies reaching the big screen for audiences to enjoy nationally and internationally and empower filmmakers to navigate the global film market.

Bursary applicable

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This training course is not funded or commissioned by ScreenSkills, but has been reviewed to ensure it is meeting agreed standards such as industry-led diversity targets, appropriate business insurance, and evidence of previous quality training provision.